In the previous movie, I showed you how to use blending inside of Adobe…Illustrator in order to achieve what amount to custom gradients in the form of…the shooting-star effect.…In this movie, I'm going to show you an alternate use for blending in which we…fill in details between two extreme path outlines.…For example, I'll go ahead and zoom in on this bat up here at the top of the…sarcophagus, and notice that we have these kinds of ribs that are showing up…inside of the wings, but we're missing some lines in between, and that's because…I'm going to fill in those lines using blending.…

Let me demonstrate.…I'll go ahead and click on this top path outline over here on the left wing and…then Shift+Click on this path outline, and they represent two extremes that…we're going to blend between.…And by the way, I'm clicking and Shift+Clicking with the Black Arrow tool.…Then I'll go up to the Object menu, I'll choose Blend, and I'll choose the Make…command, and we're going to be taking advantage of this command a lot.…

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2/13/2018

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1/13/2011

This course is a collection of short Photoshop and Illustrator projects and creative effects that can be completed in ten minutes or less. The series is taught by computer graphics guru Deke McClelland, and presented in his signature step-by-step style. The intent is to reveal how various Photoshop and Illustrator features can be combined and leveraged in real-world examples so that they can be applied to creative projects right away.

Skill Level Intermediate

116h 46m

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